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	Joshua Nkomo: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Joshua Nkomo (1918 (date uncertain) – July 1, 1999) was a Zimbabwean (A native or inhabitant of Zimbabwe) nationalist leader, a Ndebele (A Bantu language sometimes considered a dialect of Zulu), and the leader and founder of the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (additional info and facts about Zimbabwe African Peoples Union) (ZAPU).
		Following Nkomo's release, he went to Zambia (A republic in central Africa; formerly controlled by Great Britain and called Northern Rhodesia until it gained independence within the Commonwealth in 1964) to fight for Zimbabwean independence, which continued by means of his own personal guerrilla army even after independence had been achieved.
		Joshua Nkomo died of old age and obesity (More than average fatness) in 1999, at the age of 81.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/joshua_nkomo.htm (642 words)

	Joshua Nkomo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elections were held in 1980, and to most observers' surprise Nkomo's ZAPU lost in a landslide to Mugabe's ZANU.
		Nkomo was detained by Smith's government in 1964, with fellow revolutionaries Mugabe and Sithole, until 1974, when they were released due to pressure from South African president B.J. Vorster.
		Joshua Nkomo died of old age and prostrate cancer on July 1st 1999, at the age of 81.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joshua_Nkomo (1029 words)

	Joshua Nkomo - MAGGEMM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Joshua Nkomo must have recognised that the creation of ZANU effectively implied that the future direction of African politics in the imposed colonial boundaries of former Rhodesia, would decidedly be based on ethnic allegiance.
		Nkomo also surprisingly forgot that the concept of a nation-state of which served as the foundation for present day Zimbabwe, and which he fought for so long to preserve was formulated by white settler colonialists whom he fought against for more than three decades.
		Nkomo's basic weakness was his failure to understand the obvious: that nearly all post colonial states within Africa who had retained the concept of nation states as formulated by white settler colonialists, had inflicted genocide, ethnic cleansing, extra-judiciary murders, rapes, and disappearances against so-called powerless minority ethnic groups.
	members.aol.com /maggemm/JoshuaNkomo.htm (2291 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| International News \| Our old man
		Nkomo, who passed away aged 83 in the early hours of 1 July 1999, was given a state burial at Hero's Acre, Harare, a national shrine where veteran liberation struggle leaders are laid to rest.
		Nkomo was undaunted though, and through sheer determination, succeeded in setting in motion a chain of events that ultimately led to Zimbabwe's independence.
		Nkomo's men, with Soviet arms and ammunition, were dug in deep along the riverbank, but it was Mugabe's men -- fighting from Mozambique with Chinese support -- who actually took much of the credit for the country's war of liberation, the Chimurenga.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /1999/438/in2.htm (1387 words)

	Joshua Nkono: Rhodesia’s Leading Black
		Nkomo's background and political views may offer some insight on the future course of events, now that Rhodesia's fl and white populations are confronting each other over the issue of fl majority rule.
		Joshua Nkomo was clearly in control of his audience and enjoying it.
		Smith was implicitly aiding Nkomo by making it possible for the more moderate leader to move and speak openly at public meetings and to the press, to carry a passport, and to continue his political activities, despite the fact that it was to the detriment of the white government.
	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF001975/Wright/Wright13/Wright13.html (1925 words)

	JOSHUA MQABUKO NKOMO, SYMBOL OF UNITY IN SADC - SANF - Editorial - SARDC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The late Zimbabwean vice-president, Joshua Nkomo, came from humble beginnings, born of peasant parents living in the harsh and arid province of Matebeleland in southwest Zimbabwe.
		Nkomo, true to the nickname Umdala wethu (our father) or "Father Zimbabwe", was in the thick of the anti-colonial struggle from the 1940s, as a railway workers' union official, to his glorious days as the leader of the nationalist movements.
		Nkomo was in Lusaka at the time ZAPU was banned and he considered the idea of forming a government-in-exile as a way of stimulating international pressure to help effect political change in Southern Rhodesia.
	www.sardc.net /editorial/sanf/1999/07/13-07-1999-nf3.htm (939 words)

	BBC News \| Africa \| Obituary: Joshua Nkomo
		Joshua Nkomo, who died on Thursday aged 82, was the first modern nationalist leader in white-ruled Rhodesia.
		Mr Nkomo came from Zimbabwe's Ndebele minority, and a year after Zapu's foundation there was a split with the nation's Shona majority under the leadership of Nkomo's former lieutenant, Robert Mugabe.
		In 1982 Zapu was accused of plotting a coup and Nkomo was fired, his passport taken away, and he was restricted to Bulawayo.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/382848.stm (610 words)

	Welcome to the Financial Gazette Online! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dr Nkomo was at that time in the political wilderness, having fallen out with the ZANU PF government of then Prime Minister Robert Mugabe over the discovery of arms caches allegedly stockpiled by Nkomo’s political party, PF ZAPU.
		Nkomo and his party were accused of planning to stage a rebellion against the state.
		Nkomo, who was seeking re-election to Parliament after being relieved of his ministerial post, was a sitting duck with respect to the political brickbats and scapegoating directed at him.
	www.fingaz.co.zw /fingaz/2003/September/September11/1223.shtml (993 words)

	Salon Obituary \| Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwe's vice president, dies at 82 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Vice president Joshua Nkomo, the father of Zimbabwe's fight for independence from white colonial rule, died early today, the government said.
		Nkomo suffered from prostate cancer, and poor health forced him to largely withdraw from political life last year.
		Nkomo was regarded by many as the guiding light of the nation's fl nationalist movement, which fought a guerrilla war against white colonial rule for nearly three decades in the former British colony of Rhodesia.
	www.salon.com /people/obit/1999/07/01/nkomo/print.html (197 words)

	History of Joshua M Nkomo-"Father Zimbabwe" :::: Bulawayo1872.com
		Nkomo, frustrated with the lack of progress in negotiations with authorities, subtle indifference from the international community and the constant banning of liberation movements, decided to form a government in-exile as a way of stepping up international pressure on the colonial regime and effect political change in Southern Rhodesia.
		Nkomo, with the help of his supporters in his home area, soon sneaked out of his restriction in Bulawayo and Zimbabwe through the Botswana border to Britain.
		In 1987 Nkomo was reconciled with Mugabe and two parties merged, leaving Zimbabwe as effectively a one-party state, and leading some Ndebeles to accuse Nkomo of selling out.
	www.bulawayo1872.com /history/nkomoj.htm (748 words)

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	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF001975/Wright/Wright13/Wright13.rtf (2132 words)

	BBC News \| Africa \| Mandela leads tributes to Joshua Nkomo
		The announcement of Mr Nkomo's death was made on national radio by President Robert Mugabe, his one-time comrade in the fight against white minority rule in the former Rhodesia.
		State radio and Ziana news agency reported that Mr Nkomo - who was a vice-president - died in the early hours of Thursday at the Parirenyatwa hospital in Harare.
		Mr Nkomo's body is to be taken to his home town of Bulawayo but will be returned to Harare for a funeral on Monday.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/382604.stm (466 words)

	Africa Stage: Monica Dispatch - July 17, 1999
		Nkomo encouraged all to speak, and after a pause, asked his own question of the group, "Who was the commander when the battle of Shangan was won during the first Chimurenga?" During the first Chimurenga, Shona and Ndebele agreed to cooperate against the British.
		Nkomo thought about fleeing to Mozambique to head up a government in exile, and around this time disagreements between Nkomo and Robert Mugabe (the current Zimbabwean head of state) led to Mugabe's disgusted resignation.
		Nkomo pressed on with the struggle as well, and most of the ZANU and ZAPU party leaders continued to be banned or imprisoned for their nationalistic actions.
	www.worldtrek.org /odyssey/africa/071799/071799monicankmom.html (1512 words)

	Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Biography / Biography of Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Biography
		Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo (1917-1999) was a leader in the African nationalist movement in southern Rhodesia during the post-World War II period.
		Son of a cattle-owning teacher and lay preacher, Nkomo was born June 19, 1917, in the Semokwe reserve of Matebeland in southern Rhodesia.
		Nkomo returned home in 1945 and worked as a welfare officer with Rhodesian Railways while practicing as a lay preacher on most Sundays.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-joshua-mqabuko-nkomo (249 words)

	The World Today Archive - Zimbabwean leader dies
		Joshua Nkomo was a leader of Zimbabwe's revolt against white rule.
		For a decade from 1964 Nkomo had been gaoled by the Smiths regime and after his release it was often Joshua Nkomo who put the rebels case to the world.
		Those ethnic tensions between the Shorna people who re aligned with President Mugabe and the Ndbelay who backed Joshua Nkomo erupted into violent clashes and in 1983 Joshua Nkomo sought respite in London although he arrived there insisting it was not to seek asylum.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/stories/s33140.htm (505 words)

	AEGiS-Reuters: Nkomo accuses whites of bringing AIDS to Zimbabwe
		HARARE, Zimbabwe (Reuter) - Zimbabwean Vice-President Joshua Nkomo Saturday accused whites of bringing AIDS to his southern African country to wipe out fls, the state news agency reported.
		ZIANA quoted Nkomo as telling a funeral gathering for his son Ernest Thuthani, who he said died of AIDS Wednesday, that whites were refusing to share a cure with the majority fls.
		Nkomo said many Zimbabweans were dying of the disease but few people were prepared to discuss it openly.
	www.aegis.com /news/re/1996/RE960444.html (447 words)

	Joshua Nkomo's legacy
		Nkomo died some six years ago on the 1st July 1999 after a long and protracted battle with a prolific but deadly prostrate cancer.
		Born of Kalanga descent, a minority ethnic group based in Southern Zimbabwe among the Matebele people, Nkomo had to endure a lifelong exposure to the negative ramifications of the base politics of racism and tribalism.
		Throughout the early 1980s, instead of fully enjoying the fruits of independence he had so much fought to gain for most of his life, Nkomo was forced to eat the humble pie by Mugabe who had the ethnic support of the majority Shona population.
	www.newzimbabwe.com /pages/fortune42.12835.html (1215 words)

	zimbabwe - ppu infrormation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1974 Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe were released from jail and formed a Patriotic Front to fight Ian Smith's regime; they led the Zimbabwe Africa National Liberation Army from bases in Mozambique from 1972 to 1979.
		A rift appeared almost at once between Mugabe's ZANU party and Joshua Nkomo's ZAPU, and Nkomo was dismissed from government in 1982, accused of planning a coup.
		Supporters of Joshua Nkomo in Matabeleland rebelled, and were brutally put down by government troops, who were accused of killing thousands between 1982 and 1986.
	www.ppu.org.uk /war/countries/africa/zimbabwe.html (875 words)

	Joshua Nkomo -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Nkomo and Mugabe then became opponents, as each sought to control the new regime.
		Although he encouraged fl nationalist guerrillas, Nkomo was essentially a diplomat and preferred negotiation to fighting.
		Joshua Reynolds was the most successful portrait painter of his day in England as well as a distinguished member of London's intellectual society.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9276109 (773 words)

	Levelling the Land Stakes
		Commenting at length on the issue of land in a recent television documentary on the topic, Vice President Joshua Nkomo said the government was planning to freeze all white and council owned land in urban areas and introduce a system of leasehold ownership.
		This would help to provide land for young fl people who did not have the money to buy it because their parents had been forced into the reserves where they were not able to produce anything.
		Nkomo said it was the fl people who were the producers on commercial farms, adding: "The farmers, they are not technical people, they have no knowledge of farming, most of them.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /zimbabwe/politics/nkomo.html (891 words)

	Makhathini Guduza: the death of a good man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nkomo, being the leader of ZAPU was incessantly abused verbally as the 'Father of Dissidents'.
		It is again worthwhile to note that Nkomo's support base within Bulawayo had been temporarily castrated into unwilling submission by the over-bearing presence of the murderous army and intelligence agents.
		The state machinery that was generously allocated for the operation to either wound Nkomo or out-rightly kill him failed to see him leave the town for the country-side and eventually the country.
	www.newzimbabwe.com /pages/masola11.11995.html (1460 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Joshua
		According to the traditional view, its author was Joshua, the military leader and hero chosen by Moses to be his...
		Born in Matabeleland (now part of Zimbabwe), the son of a lay preacher and teacher, Nkomo...
		Lederberg, Joshua (1925- ), American geneticist and Nobel laureate, born in Montclair, New Jersey.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Joshua.html (91 words)

	ZIMBABWE-HEALTH: To Tell or Not, is the Question
		But while applauding Nkomo's revelation, saying it would help destigmatise the disease in the country, he accepts that the issue has raised ethical questions.
		"It's very difficult to say he (Nkomo) did the right thing or not until one gets to know whether the deceased or the wife and children wanted it to be publicised on their death," says David Chimhini, director of ZimRights.
		"Nkomo is the head of the family and in his capacity he acted in a right way," he believes.
	www.aegis.com /news/ips/1996/IP960402.html (826 words)

	The New York Review of Books: THE JEWEL OF AFRICA
		That is the role of the opposition leader Joshua Nkomo.
		This whole episode of Mugabe's treacherous behavior in relation to Nkomo needs to be woven into her article if we are to have a balanced view of the situation in Zimbabwe.
		Janet Jagan is quite right: I should have said something about Joshua Nkomo, whom I knew when he was in the wilderness in London, before the Lancaster House agreement.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/article-preview?article_id=16693 (511 words)

	mandela
		Nkomo, 82, died yesterday after a long battle against prostate cancer.
		Mandela said he knew Nkomo while he was studying as a social worker in Johannesburg.
		Together with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, Nkomo not only liberated Zimbabwe from the white minority government of Ian Smith, but also united the country's two main liberation movements -- the Zimbabwe African People's Union and the Zimbabwe African National Union.
	www.dispatch.co.za /1999/07/02/easterncape/MANDELA.HTM (170 words)

	Joshua Nkomo
		Nkomo spent years fighting Britain and later white Rhodesia for independence.
		A subsequent split led to bloody clashes that ended with a 1987 peace accord and Nkomo's appointment to a powerless vice-presidential post.
		A bitter feud continues; Mugabe and Nkomo st ruggle for their country's future.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0780837.html (210 words)

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